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The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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The Winter of Our Discontent

by John Steinbeck

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Scott’s Quotes

“Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

tags: garcin, hell, people

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“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
― Howard Phillips Lovecraft, The Nameless City

tags: death

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

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“The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

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